Handball

About Handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outfield players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. Players need to have a lot of speed, power, agility and technical skills and it´s one of the most competitive in Universities Sports.

Handball is also one of the most played indoor sports currently with 40,000 federated athletes in Portugal. It has about 28% of participants in school taking it as a subject with an average of 5000 students per year.

The Handball section is one of the oldest of Associação Académica de Coimbra and has a tradition in grassroots and Universities Sport.

Competition Program

12/07

13/07

14/07

15/07

16/07

17/07

18/07

19/07

20/07

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T

C

C

C

C

C

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D

A-Arrivals T-Training C-Competition D-Departure

Uniforms

Each team is required to have at least 1 (one) full team kit in light colours and one full team kit in dark colours (blue and red are considered dark colours) for the matches of the EUG. Goalkeepers´ kit must differ from court players´ kit in both light and dark colours kit options.

Each player´s number announced during the general technical meeting must be affixed on the back and front of the shirt of the respective player. The number must be clearly legible (in contrast colour to the shirt), must range from 1 (one) to 99 (ninety-nine) and be at least 20 (twenty) cm high on the back and at least 10 (ten) cm high on the front. During the entire duration of the EUG competition, each player must wear the same number.

Rules and Regulations

The competition will be held following the EUSA Document for Rules and Regulations for the European Universities Games.

Competition Area/Field of Play

The Field of play and all the competition area and equipment will be presented mainly based on the most recent Technical Regulations of the International Handball Federation (IHF) and European Handball Federation (EHF).

Equipment

Ball - Select

Awards

Achievement

Competition category

Title for winner

Cups

1st,2nd,3rd,

Team

European Universities Champion

Medals

1st,2nd,3rd

Team, (Athletes officials)

European Universities Champion

Fair Play

Most Valuable Player

Team

Athlete

Winner

MVP

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